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The OITEGOrJ STATZZMAIt Scdasau Orjon, Thursday Morning. Seplezaber 27, 1343
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"Wo Favor Strays 17; No Fear
From First Statesman,
THE STATESMAN
PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor en Publisher
Member of the Associated Press
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Fewer School Children - v
Salem shows the anomaly of lack of housing
at the same time. that schools show a decline
in enrollment. The pressures for houses or
apartments is very heavy. A person has to fcuy
a house,' it seems,, to find a place to dwell in.
The city's population definitely is growing. At
the same tjme fewer children than a year ago
"are enrolled in the public schools. " v v
The reason is that the missing children
simply weren't born. The birthrate declined
steadily during the fourth decade, as it had
been doing for decades preceding. To. enter
school this fall the child should have been born
in 1939 or - earlier. But the numbers born" in
those years was relatively few. Now the defici
ency reaches into the schoolrooms. This ex
plains the paradox of high demand for housing
and lower demand for desks in schoolhouses.
Five years hence a reversal may be- noted as
the heavier crop of children born I in ' wartime
march off to school.
Probably all cities, will be deceived when the
head count is made in 1950. They will not
have as many people as they think they do.
Depending on such, statistics as number of water
or electric meters or number of housing units
occupied they wilt anticipate marked growth
in total population. That will not be true be
cause the number of persons per meter has
declined with the smaller size of families.
Students of population anticipate continued
lowering of the birthrate over the longer term,
go our pattern of ages will continue to change.
Suffrage in Japan
Discussions regarding the rights (if any) of
women in Japan has given rise to interesting
conjectures as to the possible effect of woman
suffrage. There is little use pointing to our
own nation -as an example, because our trend
of thought is entirely different and whatever
political leavening has resulted from our own
women's vote is hardly conparable to the po-
tentials of Japan.
It is true that the mass of Japanese women
more or less constitutes a robot class. But
intrinsically there is no need for it to remain
that way. Students of Japan have found Nip
pon women in character, but little different
from their occidental sisters. In fact, the fern-,
iriine ..difference between the east and west
apparently is far less than the male disparity
in thought and deed. .
Japanese women are made subservient to
men on the theory that such subservience is
for the glory of the emperor. It would take a
long time to root out that belief and translate
feminine- weakness into action. But there is
little season to doubt that a? active feminine
vote would be more interested in a resurgence
of self-respect and a voice in homeland affairs
than it Would in the subjugation of a Greater
East Asia.
One thing is certain Japanese emperor-worship
has failed to develop any concept of in
ternational brotherhood. Perhaps the liberation
of Japanese. womanhood would be a potent
factor along that line. ., .
need to reckon with. Prohibition didn't fail,
measured in terms of consumption of alcoholic
. beverages; but it did fail in terms of the corrosion-of
the character of the people and of
- public officials. The American people with their
traditions of liberty find halters on their con
sumption of ordinary goods irksome. Considera
tions either of . morals nor of patriotism are
: sufficient to keep all of them 'in line. Govern
ment must recognize this fact. Our people simply
refuse to be regimented.
. v The quickets cure for high prices in goods
is more production. As soon as the vast pro
ducing machinery of America gets to turning
out civilian goods, not only will black markets
disappear but so will the threat of inflation.
Black Markets Fade
The black market . in gasoline ended on V-J
day when gas rationing was terminated. We
hear very little about black market in meats,
since there has been some modification down
" wards of the point-price on meats. Abundance
provides the best cure for the illicit operations.
For years we heard about black markets in
Russia, That, we felt was part-of their system.
The socialist system couldn't or didn't produce
enough goods to satisfy the public demand, so
private venturers got busy to provide goods
at prices high, enough to justify their risk. But
we never expected a black, market to operate
in America, chiefly because we were accus
tomed to an abundance of consumer goods. In
fact our producers were constantly complaining
of price-breaking surpluses ,
- Yet when wartime shortages appeared in es
" sential commodities the black markets seemed
to spring up as by magic. Americans had no
more virtue than the Russians both in selling
end in buying on the black market. The Ameri
. can practice under prohibition of patronizing
the bootlegger was quickly renewed, though
nowhere on so large a scale.
The final cure is simply production. If goods
are produced in volume they will be bought
and consumed in volume. If ,ftey are not pro
' duced they will command high prices on the
legitimate market, or if put under restrictions
of sale will ' command ' higher prices on the
- bootleg market.
This streak of lawlessness on the part of the
public is something the government planners
Editorial Comment
HUNGRY WORLD '
Hundreds of Yamhill county's young folks were
withdrawn from an urgent labor market this week
with the opening of schools in nearly every district
of the county. As has been the case in previous
years the opening had been delayed again this
' year from two to three weeks so that the aid of
; the youngsters could be enlisted in the crop harv
esting program.
. The youngsters have maJe real contribution
to the harvest so far this year and certainly there
is no feeling that they should be kept longer from
their books and school activities. To the older
generation now must fall the duty of seeing that
the remainder of the 1943 season crop Is safely
stowed away against the needs of a hungry world.
And it does promise to be a winter of need unless
every possible item of food stuff can be gathered.
Hunger, freezing and pestilence will be the lot
of the world if we of the United States fail to
meet our duty now. Not only is hejp needed in
gathering but in canning and processing either in
plants or in the home. Don't fail to do your part
McMinnville Telephone Register."
Clackamas Studies New Plan V
At Oregon City an "organization was formefd
at a recent meeting to foster a county manager
for Clackamas county. So far as we know this
is the first time an organized effort has been
made to apply the law enacted this year making
effective the constitutional amendment of 1944
which makes the -manager plan optional with
counties. The names of person identified with
the movement in Oregon City indicate it ij
supported by many of the county's leading
citizens. " '
It will not be surprising if Clackamas county
adopts a county manager form. It has before
it the splendid record in city government made
under a city manager. The county politics in
that county have been more or less turbulent
for a good many years, so the people may see
in a change of form a change to improve county
administration. j
Marion county has a far better record of
county administration. Here the place to begin
is city government ' which with its oversized
council of 14 members and its system of council
committees . is Notoriously inefficient "and un
economical. i
By PAZifTlnc. Reproduction In whole
. . ., m London to the exclusion of
The American writers with sym-
UBIUlKli - .
pathy for internationalism and
generally tor
Russia, are now
"dJly reporting
to us their deep
dismay that
- Molotov would
not budge an
inch toward
agreemen t s in
the Big Three
council of min
isters. T hey
are taxing
kr miuwt wHk Tfc WMkiactaa Staff
Never a Dull Moment
V f
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J. D. WhHl
Hurry up and spend your shoe ration cou
pons. They may not be worth anything after
October 1st. Who wants to be caught with an
unused coupon when shoe rationing ends?
Interpreting
The War News
By JAMES D. WHITE
- . Associated Pres Staff Writer
SA FRANCISCO, Sept. 2MP)-That inagte
' phrase, "an Asiatic federation" made JU first public
post-war appearance the other diry at Bombay,
India. ' -'V1'-.:-
It came from the mouth of an Indian politician,
Sarat Chandra Bose, whose family is strongly
tainted with Japanese collaboration. One brother,'
Rash Behart Bose, lived in exile in Japan many
- years. Another, Subhas Chandra Bose, recently was
reported by the Japanese to have died in an airplane
crash after leading a Japanese- m i
sponsored Indian independence ' 1
movement throughout the war."
The brother who spoke in Bom
bay had Just been released after 1 r i
four years imprisonment. He spoke
just as the all-India congress work
ing committee had branded Brit
ish proposals for gradual Indian
evolution toward dominion status
and independence as "vague, in
adequate and unsatisfactory."
The same committee earlier had
made the demand that not only
India, but Burma, Malaya, French
Indo-China and the Netherlands Indies be freed
from "imperialist domination."
- The Indians, still not united among themselves,
are hardly in a position to organize an effective
movement to throw off Asia's centuries of control
by remote European rulers through the colonial
system.
. It cannot be denied, however, that just now there
is throughout Asia, as a direct corollary of Japan's
defeat, a relative but vast emptiness of authority
in many areas. In this emptiness sprout many forms
of political movements today, but all having in
common a demand for freedom. "
This stems partly from empty Japanese promises
while Japan wielded authority. Asiatics themselves
realized that Japan's slogan, "Asia for the Asiatics'
meant only "Asia for Japan," but the fact remains
that they watched the Japanese drive out or im-
prison the white colonial rulers of pre-war years.
IndoChina is but one example A transportation
shortage which prevents the quick return of French
forces has allowed Indo-Chinese natives to rise In
an independence movement that seems as poorly
organized as it is Japanese inspired. .
v i The Dutch are having trouble in Java for the
same reason. .
. The British have got back much more success
fully into Burma, Malaya and British Borneo.
Even in Siam a nation which managed through
,the past century to remain free by playing British
. and Trench imperialism against each other there
is trouble today, as disturbances are reported be
i. tween Siamese nationalists and the Chinese minor
ity, r..,. ';
In this sense, China is playing a double role
as a past victim of colonial exploitation and as
herself a colonizer and potential leader of, Asiatic
. nations- where her large commercial communities
in all the big southeast Asia cities might prove
. highly Important in the future. .
, China, toot is having transportation trouble.
American planes - ferry Chinese troops back into
areas which have been under Japanese occupation,
and it -remains to be seen how the Chinese will
return eventually to Formosa, off the China coast,
and what sort of government they give, the For
raosana, not all of whom are Chinese. : r -
. Superficially, Asia is so hungry, so threadbare
and so disorganized after years of war that the:
idea of a strong "Asiatic federation" sounds quite
beyond the realm of possibility today.
Nevertheless hunger and "disorganization of auth-
ority are two prime requisites for great political
" - and social change anywhere. These factiKStmay
paralyze Asia politically today. They may not al
ways do so. . .' ?
Tho Literary
Guldopoot
By W. G. Rogers . -
THIES O'CLOCK DINNUt, y J.
Mpfclmc rswtaMT (VUdjB: SZJS).
Just as I decided regretfully
that the book which wins a prize
or makes author and publisher
rich probably does not merit
much space in a review column
witten for grownups, along
comes a novel like this, selected
by the Literary Guild for Octo
ber, bought by MGM for $125,000
plus, vend yet an exceptionally
interesting story. i
The author's particular virtue
seems to me to be thoroughness.
This is the sort of book on which
she could have spent years pa
tiently working over sentences
which develop once in a while
into epigrams, nursing a compli
cated plot and keeping every
step clear, bringing up her char
acters to suit her various pur
poses. .'' ; ""' -: -"'.
Perhaps her most careful study
went into Jen Redcliff who, dead
before the story opens," never
theless proceeds to establish con
trol in various ways over his
widow Judith, his brother Tat,
Lorena Hessenwinkle and others.
Perhaps her most inspired
touch comes in the dramatic ex-
plosion with which the Red
cliff family dinner breaks up.
' One reason why this book
will be popular, or why those
who have put money- into it
think It will be, is its support of
the good old days, the- horse-,
and-buggy philosophy. To learn,'
as you may from - the Jacket,
that the two families involved
Fare Redcliffs and Hessenwinkles
is to suppose the Redcliffs will
be the right kind of people and
the Hessenwinkles the wrong
a contrast that some readers
will call unfair to the foreign
sounding name. These readers
might complain of unfairness .
again in the opposite treatments
accorded to one Redcliff male
and one Hessenwinkle female
for the same offense, committed
indeed at the same instant; or
still again because the one rash
and immature act in the entire
. novel is committed by the one
person activated, however un
wisely, by idealism.
In other words, this Is a novel
which real-life Redcliffs win
indorse and real-lift Hessen
winkles resent, . but they'll ill :
have a good time reading it.
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WESTBOUND FROM HONO-LTJLU-(fl)-There,s
an old say
ing among GI's that the Ameri
can soldier isn't really at home
any place overseas until jie has
- come to hate that particular
'foreign spot with a passion pe
culiar to the unwanting wan
; derer.
And the second half of that
saying is that he- never learns
to like a place until he has his
orders to -leave.
Both are true. But it Is espe
cially of . the latter that I'm
thinking at the moment. For
now I've left Hawaii the place
where I stopped to make a
phone call and stayed a month
and although I've been itching
to leave all that time, suddenly
I now find myself already wax
ing tentatively nostalgic about
, Oahu.
Not Tee Happy
- Since it meant .missing a
chance to help cover the sur
render ceremonies in Tokyo bay,
I wasn't" too happy about Ha
waii from the outset. Then I be
gan to run into servicemen
who'd been stationed there for
many months and they gave me
the business.
"Pearl of the Pacific, huh?"
they'd exclaim with tones of
men who have just been played
for suckers by clrqus sideshow
barkers. "Boy, Just wait until we
get back and tell those steamship
lines off!"
Or else they'd go into detailed
lurid discussions of their opin
ions of the much publicized Wai
kaki beech usually comparing
it unfavorably with some swim-
show was playing.
And everything closed so ear
ly that after dark there was
literally nothing for the drifting
servicemen to do.
Of course if they had swim
ming trunks and a . place to
change they could try out Wal
kikl beach. But most of them
had gotten such erroneous and
hifaluting Impressions from tra
vel folders and the like that the
Pacific's most famed dunking
spot turned out to be a terrific
disappointment. :
But looking back at It now It
seems to this correspondent that .
such preconceived expectations
have caused most of the damage
during the doughboys wander
ings in the war Just ended.
More Disappointment .
I seem to recall it was that
way in Africa where the GIs
thought they'd find only hot
weather but froze their feet all
winter in Tunisia. And "sunny
Italy" unleased tirades of bit
terness from every rain-soaked,
frost-bitten doughboy outside
Cassino.
Even the Isle of Capri was a
letdown to many a soldier be
cause it failed to live up to the
dreams he'd built from popular
songs.
Maybe it's that way with Ha
waii. Any serviceman still sta
tioned there probably will blow
his top if he reads this but I'm
Inclined to suspect half the rea
son most of us were so disillu
sioned about far places is our
own fault.
Vf e form fantastic preconceiv-
ming hole or two-by-four strip n what we will
of 'sand along the Atlantic coast
"Women," they'd say. "Wom
en for whom?" And they had a
legitimate gripe there. Nobody
has issued any official figures
on the ratio of women to men.
in Honolulu, but with service
men Jamming the city about one
to SO seems a fair estimate.
Most restaurants, cafes and
saloons were off limits at least
until recently. Movie, theatres
were so packed that they re
quired reservations hours and
sometimes days ahead if a good
fiihithei
beigM:
there and then are so busy
GRIN AND BEAR IT
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DAYTON, Sepi 26-T)-Mrs,
John vHibbs is not among Ore
gonians who fear leaky roofs with
approach of the rainy season.
, The hand-shaved . cedar shin-
gles put on her bam in 1876 and
"I wish yea beys wouldn't report Jf when t don't answer the Senate the house in 1888 still are good
. - roll call! my wife's asking ..questlonsr. ' for another year or so, she says.
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beingMntter ebout not finding
them that we don't bother to
look around for what Is to be
found.
" '
Keeelleettens
Already I'm remembering the
brilhant beauty of those blood
red sunsets through the palm
trees. And the way the full moon
hung high and white over Dia
mond Head, And that spectacu
lar motion-frozen appearance of
surfboard riders skimming the
crest " of waves Into Walkiki
beach. :- - . ;i s"
, Even Waikikl itself already Is
a pleasant memory for It was a
good place to swim.' And there
were women there beautiful
women in bathing suits. True,
or most of us they were Just
there to look at, not even to talk
to, for each one was surrounded
by would-be swains before we
ever reached the beach.
Worse Off Elsewhere "
But something tells me there's '
many an atoll - farther west
where 7 GIs ; would give ; six
. months pay Just to spend a cou
ple of afternoons lying on Wal
kiki's sands watching the surf-
boarders come sweeping In from
the sea and especially watching
the ' smooth-looking babes go
sweeping by. .
So okay Oahu. You're letting
me get away without a single
lei and there's no hula bend on
Hickam field's black - topped
runway. But nostalgia's fatal
spell, which always goes hand in
hand with e farewell, already is
working I and IH corne back
some day. . ". ' -
They all seem bent on build
ing a new American policy from
scratcrv ever e period of months
and years, outside the fears and
domestic politics which largely
motivated the Roosevelt admin
istration and fadn; the facts
at last' It may hf significant
that they will go next (after a
local stop-off) to the Rio de Ja
neiro hemisphere conference,
there to make permanent the
agreements of Chaplutepee, and
establish a genuine foundation
for hemisphere understanding
and solidarity. At least we can
forward to mat
upon for
postwar even if Molotov has now
come out openly with the" oppo
sition to our , postwar' course
which , Russia ' has always in
wardly pursued in action with
out deviation. v ''' ;"
rial Mallea
' leadership in declaring the con
ference -erythmfrom ou .jy".,
eia.ledlg ii" Wmd ground. tobuild
Europe Just about what we went
to war to stop the, nazis from
doing namely gobbling it up.
The' news has not created a
corresponding shock on the inside-
here. Within officialdom,
not much else from Russia was
genuinely expected. No Moscow
policy declaration of diplomatic
action during the war or since
justly gave grounds for assump
tion that Stalin was really fight-.,
ing for the Atlantic charter for
Rumania and Italy, except as It
might be interpreted beyond our
comprehension in Russia's fun-,
damental political interests.
. (Continued from page 1) A
ideology and no understanding
of the pledges made by our gov
ernment and by our allies to root
out r the nazi poison . from Ger
many.;.. " v
General MacArthur likewise
startled 'folk when' he made the
statement that occupation might
be just a six months job, Now
he tries to recall the effect of
his words by saying. that Japan
may need to be occupied . "for
many years" though it may be
that only small forces would be
required. His earlier comment
drew a pained expression from
Acting Secretary Acheson who
feared that MacArthur was con
templating an ordinary military
settlement and not the purge of
Japan's wicked hierarchy of
militarists, politicians and indus
trialists. -' '
Of all the commanders now
exercising powers of military
government, General Eisenhow
er alone seems to have a full
' understanding of the nature of
; his task. He has gone .farthest
in making the four-cornered oc
:cupat ion of Germany a success,
I through cooperation with the
British, Russian .and French
.forces.. His . statements' indicate
,a sympathy with the democratic
conception of society which un
derlies the allied program and
a determination ' to make that
prevail in Germany to the high
' est degree possible. ..
We can lose victory by inepti
tude or stupidity or indifference
in our occupation of the conquer
ed countries. Control etneans
more than' merely . pulling the
military fangs of the enemy. It
means blasting from positions of
power and influence the leaders
who set their countries on evil
courses and in eliminating as
far as possible the fascist prin
ciple of government --This:, calls
for expert administration which
rarely comes from the military
mind. The president himself
should scrutinize carefully the
methods and results of the men
charged with responsibility in
the present control of Japan and
Germany. If they are not mak
ing good they should be prompt
ly replaced. Clearly General
its very failure than previously Patton should be relieved of duty
"successful" conferences which of Bavaria. . and the "honey
moon" in , Japan should end
abruptly. .!-
Merely A Bertnalng- - .
Thus, while the run of London
reports may claim "the Russians
outsmarted us again" and term
the conference a failure from
our standpoint the inner Judges -see
we have merely made a be
ginning toward development of
policy by understanding what
we are up against
The London council drew the
issues down from the abstract
realm of allied propaganda into
actual application, and. discover
ed the void. Moscow had been
talking about ."democracy" .for
Rumania, while meaning hege
mony over it. Not until the Lon
don council sought to bring the
issue down to terms of practical
action did it become unavoidably
apparent to those who preferred
to be blind that we were talking
about opposite things. In this
case as on Hungary, Italy, Yugo
slavia and in fact nearly all is
sues, the public is now able to
discover not only that a void
exists but the precise dimen
sions of it In short everyone
can now measure in inches how
far apart we are. Until this basis
of discussion was accomplished,
progress was impossible. ,
"Success" Not Worth It : S1 I .
Of course it would have been.;:
easy . for us to accomplish the,.-,
"success" of this-conference, asv
in the past, by giving Russia
everything asked, or asking for
nothing for our ideals, , while '
pretending- "complete accord."
That kind of "success" is the
success of surrender. Getting rid "
of that kind of success for con- .
ferences is in itself a construc
tive achievement which opens
the way for fair negotiations,
realistic compromises and pos
sibly genuine agreements-, in the'
long run. , '
The most effective bargaining
'point Russia has pressed against
us in world dickering so far is.
that our statesmen thought they
needed a successful outcome to
advertise to our people. Stalin
and Molotov assumed no respon
sibility for successful conclu- ..
sions. They could let a confer
ence faiL.If we have dug our
selves out of that hole in Lon
don, the conference may event-'
ually prove more of a success in
conferences which1
failed to motivate action, ' aifcl
thus are recognized now to have
been real failures of the past.
These are not my observations
but a report on the inner import
of the situation. They may lead
to development of a workable
and sound American T foreign
policy and ; a constructive de
fense of our ideals and purposes
In the world ahead.
Brrates "On Bis Own"
r As to the personal inside of
the ' affair, I can report State
Secretary Byrnes has lost con
tact with his lifelong mentor,
Bernard Baruch. The personal
relationship there is not happy.
Mr. Byrnes has been going
strictly on his own, with such
advice as he gleaned presumably
from two fountain sources, Ben
Cohen, counselor, who has had
no experience in foreign affairs,
and James Dunn, the assistant
Secretary, who knows them in
side and out These two were
apparently at each Byrnes' ear
Contract (for
Building Given
The contract for a building, to
be erected for the R. D. Woodrow
company,' at 440 Center st, has
been let to Tinkham Gilbert and
R. L. Elfstrotn, construction X
start immediately. , The building
is expected to cost around $25,000.
The proposed building will be of
reinforced concrete, with concrete
roof, one stoiy with mezzanine
floor and will be 66 by 83 feet
The location for the tire, battery
and accessory concern will be a
cross the street from the new Lo
der bros building. ; ;
I Lyle P.. Bartholomew is the ar
chitect and E. E. Batterman the
contractor. . . j ,
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